He wanted to kill all white people. Then he had a life-changing ordeal

21 January 2019 - 06:26
By Belinda Pheto

Luvuyo Menziwa, former SRC member at University of Pretoria, who was found guilty by the Equality Court of hate speech after he threatened to kill white people on social media in 2016.
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Sebabatso Mosamo/Sunday Times

Three years ago, Luvuyo Menziwa, then a student leader at the University of Pretoria, threatened to kill all white South Africans with a bazooka.

Fast-forward to 2019: now the former member of the Economic Freedom Fighter’s youth wing is determined to try and help poor whites secure identity documents to qualify for social grants.